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Market Commentary - another week stuck in the headlights unsure which way to turn
The Property Derivative market spent another week stuck in the headlights unsure which way to turn as more property funds report commercial property is back on their radar, Mervyn King the governor of the Bank of England reiterated that the Bank is going to maintain QE for as long as ...
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Residential Market - house prices could fall as much as 6.6% next year
Latest research from Savills last week said that UK house prices could fall as much as 6.6% next year as unemployment deters buyers and more property becomes available on the market. Adding that values were unlikely to return to 2007 peak levels until 2014. Cluttons LLP echoed this view predicting ...
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Contemplating a run for the border...
I am sitting on the train back from Brighton - but judging by one of the big themes at the year's biggest investment market gathering I should be on the Eurostar. One of the repeated messages to the 350 fund managers and advisers at the IPD/IPF conference was 'Go Global.' ...
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World’s first property derivatives fund to be launched
Three former members of Bank of American’s property derivatives team plan to create the world’s first long-only commercial property derivatives fund. InProp Capital’s Paul Ogden, Ricardo Pereira and Markus Wolfensberger intend to launch the InProp UK Commercial Property Fund early next year. The fund will be open-ended and ungeared with ...
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A pause for celebration...
Apologies for not blogging on Friday afternoon - I was celebrating with my team. I took a rare, impromptu half day after one of the best days in the journalism calendar the Periodicals Training Council Awards, where the best young business and consumer magazine journalists are honoured. The reason ...
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David Harper's sailing blog - part 27
David Harper is director of consultancy Leisure Property Services and was previously head of international hotel brokerage and hotel valuations with CB Richard Ellis. David is taking part in the Round the World Clipper Race 2009-2010. A complete sailing novice, he will take part in the 5,100+ mile (8,200kms) leg ...
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David Harper's Sailing blog - part 26
The race day started early, getting all the rigging done, getting our kit sorted, bunks arranged and finishing off the last minute things. A party was being held at Royal Clarence Marina and many people were coming down to wave us all off. A BBQ was on offer for ...
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David Harpers Sailing Blog part 25
The Clarence was putting on a weekend of events for Clipper Crew to say goodbye, as the boats were leaving on Monday to race up to Grimsby in the Pilgrims Cup. Friday evening’s entertainment was a Karaoke night with a bucking bronco outside. Unfortunately Matt and Belinda (both round the ...
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David Harper's Sailing Blog 24
I was back down for Prep week on Thursday, with yet more gifts for the boat – I had picked up the Helming Gloves and also had the boat computer (a donation from Leisure Property Services) reconfigured by a good friend Nick Werba, and along with shower curtains and other ...
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David Harper's Sailing Blog 23
With the race due to start in less than three weeks time an army of volunteers had been asked to come down to Gosport to help get their boats ready for the race. Everyone offered up whatever time they could spare and I had been warned by my friend Charlie ...
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David Harper Sailing Blog 21
As readers of this blog will know one of the key reasons I have undertaken this extreme sailing challenge is to raise £10,000 for Cancer Research and I have been using a “Just giving” webpage to collect donations. The main way I have been letting people know about the project ...
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The Problem With PE
For most of my adult life any mention of PE brought back the horrors of Physical Education classes of my youth, in particular a lesson in 1977 after my mother had packed me off to primary school without my kit. Having to do a class of musical movement in ...
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Residential Market
Residential pricing improved in the front end buoyed by good news from the house builders, with Barratt Developments Plc reporting that reservations had increased by 34% over the last 19 weeks and Persimmon has ruled out the need for defensive fund raising due to improving market conditions and also said ...
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Market commentary - pricing nudged higher this week
Derivative pricing nudged higher this week at the front and tail ends as the market was struggling to find any directional indicators from the minutes of the MPC meeting held earlier in the month. There was a 3 way split in the MPC camp, with the majority voting for a ...
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Norwood shows its Klass
I spent a highly enjoyable evening last night in the company of Cherie Blair, Simon Cowell, Myleene Klass and Britain’s Got Talent winner Diversity. Not the usual property do, but with Richard Desmond as president, Anglo-Jewish charity Norwood has certainly upped the celebrity count at its annual dinner. This has ...
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David Harper Sailing Blog - Part 24
I was back down for Prep week on Thursday, with yet more gifts for the boat – I had picked up the Helming Gloves and also had the boat computer (a donation from Leisure Property Services) reconfigured by a good friend Nick Werba, and along with shower curtains and other ...
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Tell Boris Sarkozy: 'The French should eat cake!'
'The poor, deluded housewives of France are buying chocolate cake made in Walthamstow, under the impression that it was made in Austria!' Mayor for London Boris Johnson was on his usual irreverent form at lunchtime today in singing the praises of London dessert maker G before a 200 strong ...
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Market Commentary - continued improvement
The UK Property Derivative market shook off the previous weeks set back and pushed ahead across the entire curve this week with activity continuing to improve. The story this week is still very much that the property funds have more cash to place in the market, with a shortage of ...
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Christine has her senses assaulted at the BCSC
I am in the Great Hall – but I want to call it The Great Hall of the People. That is the effect that the Great Hall of the Trafford Centre, near Manchester, has on people. BCSC study tours are a prelude each year to the BCSC conference. ...
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Retail heads are united in Manchester
I have little time for Manchester United - its boatloads of debt are a poor example to football and like most fans I am intensely jealous of their success. But I do admire two things about them: Sir Alex Ferguson for his sheer longevity and attacking drive, and Old Trafford ...
